We had a dress code, in the first year of college…IN COLLEGE! We rebelled, three of us, from a batch of 250 students, and defied the dress code. Eventually, we prevailed when the principal stepped down and the dress code was withdrawn.
I love Peanuts/charlie brown but why is it set up differently to all the other comic strips?I have bookmarks to the three or four other strips that I read regularly, and a single click shows the daily strip.Peanuts for some reason is set so that you have to click a second time to see the cartoon in full – why is this ?
Learn to pick your battles PP. I learned this as a parent when one of my sons decided to wear his hair long (it was not as fashionable back then). Compared to the other things he could have done, this was not worth fighting over. Nor did it last long. He also played football. The first time he was tackled by the hair, it was a trip to the barber shop.
Sometimes, there’s a reason for a dress code – I never wore sandals to school not because I didn’t like them (or because of a dress code), but because in the daily stampedes, people with open-toed shoes tended to become targets for stompings from big kids with cleats.
That said, sudden stricter dress codes are often horrible for poorer kids who suddenly learn that they can only wear maybe a quarter of their wardrobe on a daily basis, and if they can’t get those clothes laundered constantly (and furthermore, eventually replaced), they quickly start to smell like a target.
I remember in the early 1970s when my high school instituted a rule saying that all boys had to wear button-down shirts and tuck them in to their pants. One boy protested by wearing a dress. Didn’t change the rule.
From where I live I pass my old high school often. Once in a while…long long while I will see a girl wearing a dress or top and skirt…How refreshing and do they know how nice they look…Not like some overstuffed sausages in poor fitting pants….Get with it ladies….
Had a story on Etiquette Hell where a girl protested the high school dress code by wearing a backless sundress. She claimed the dress code for girls was about making them cover up allegedly to prevent guys from harassing them rather than teach the guys NOT to disrespect the girls. It was like “Boys will be boys,” so it’s the girls fault if she shows too much skin and gets groped or subjected to crude remarks.
I believe in a dress code especially for children but making girls where dresses and the boys pants is sexist. I think the boys should wear kilts. Then everybody would be trying to check out each others underwear with their black patent leather shoes.
Yngvar Følling over 5 years ago
What? Sing Sing or Alcatraz wouldn’t take her?
Templo S.U.D. over 5 years ago
got your passport, Peppermint Patty, in order to go to London?
verticallychallenged Premium Member over 5 years ago
Good for you PP – civil disobedience!
su43dipta over 5 years ago
We had a dress code, in the first year of college…IN COLLEGE! We rebelled, three of us, from a batch of 250 students, and defied the dress code. Eventually, we prevailed when the principal stepped down and the dress code was withdrawn.
R W A over 5 years ago
I love Peanuts/charlie brown but why is it set up differently to all the other comic strips?I have bookmarks to the three or four other strips that I read regularly, and a single click shows the daily strip.Peanuts for some reason is set so that you have to click a second time to see the cartoon in full – why is this ?
Troglodyte over 5 years ago
The long and lonely walk to the Principal’s chamber…
jpayne4040 over 5 years ago
I like her decision.
DHBirr over 5 years ago
Alors, let us storm le Bastille to rescue Ma’m’selle Patty!
DanFlak over 5 years ago
Learn to pick your battles PP. I learned this as a parent when one of my sons decided to wear his hair long (it was not as fashionable back then). Compared to the other things he could have done, this was not worth fighting over. Nor did it last long. He also played football. The first time he was tackled by the hair, it was a trip to the barber shop.
Adiraiju over 5 years ago
Sometimes, there’s a reason for a dress code – I never wore sandals to school not because I didn’t like them (or because of a dress code), but because in the daily stampedes, people with open-toed shoes tended to become targets for stompings from big kids with cleats.
That said, sudden stricter dress codes are often horrible for poorer kids who suddenly learn that they can only wear maybe a quarter of their wardrobe on a daily basis, and if they can’t get those clothes laundered constantly (and furthermore, eventually replaced), they quickly start to smell like a target.
tripwire45 over 5 years ago
I remember in the early 1970s when my high school instituted a rule saying that all boys had to wear button-down shirts and tuck them in to their pants. One boy protested by wearing a dress. Didn’t change the rule.
SusieB over 5 years ago
Good for you PP!
coreym5 over 5 years ago
Marcie seems noticeably absent from this story arc, since she is the same class and doesn’t wear dresses either.
gantech over 5 years ago
You go, girl! That assertiveness will serve you well later.
pnutslvr65 over 5 years ago
Just another good strip from Schulz that’s all….
DCBakerEsq over 5 years ago
My Catholic high school had a strict dress code. Now, I have a persistent fetish for tight white blouses and tartan skirts. Mostly on women.
chain gang charlie over 5 years ago
From where I live I pass my old high school often. Once in a while…long long while I will see a girl wearing a dress or top and skirt…How refreshing and do they know how nice they look…Not like some overstuffed sausages in poor fitting pants….Get with it ladies….
Asharah over 5 years ago
Had a story on Etiquette Hell where a girl protested the high school dress code by wearing a backless sundress. She claimed the dress code for girls was about making them cover up allegedly to prevent guys from harassing them rather than teach the guys NOT to disrespect the girls. It was like “Boys will be boys,” so it’s the girls fault if she shows too much skin and gets groped or subjected to crude remarks.
BeatrizBroadfoot over 5 years ago
You are doing the right thing Patty
Chuck over 5 years ago
I believe in a dress code especially for children but making girls where dresses and the boys pants is sexist. I think the boys should wear kilts. Then everybody would be trying to check out each others underwear with their black patent leather shoes.